Jon Stewart plays 'Racist or Not Racist' with Key and Peele

Jon Stewart assembled a panel to play 'Racist or Not Racist'

Comedy Central

Comedy Central

Patrick Kevin Day

Was that kid in a Ku Klux Klan outfit at Halloween racist or not racist? What about that Washington Post column by Richard Cohen talking about people with "conventional views" suppressing the urge to vomit when they see New York Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio with his African American wife? Or Sarah Palin's comparison of the national debt to slavery?

Wednesday night on "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart decided to answer the media's favorite open-ended question — Is this racist or not racist? — with a panel discussion. "Daily Show" correspondents Jessica Williams, Jason Jones and Aasif Mandvi gave their views on several recent incidents in the news.

While Williams and Mandvi generally saw eye-to-eye in finding stuff quite racist, Jones called everything "adorable," including the kid in the KKK outfit.